AWS is supporting blockchain, I'm spending some time in Seattle next week to rage-cry about it (hit reply and let me know if you're around to meet up; with enough interest we'll do a meetup), and the world continues to go on as it ever does. I'll have some interesting conference news to announce in the near future as well. Onward!

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Community Contributions

Cloudonaut takes us behind the scenes of the network performance benchmark. Handy if you're considering building such a thing yourself-- or you're curious how someone might build such a thing.

I was fortunate enough to be on a panel with Manish Pandit at re:Invent 2017; now he's releasing a how-to guide for IP Whitelisting with Amazon API Gateway. I'll be honest-- I didn't know this was possible.

Tools

This one's a wobbler-- it could land in the Tools or the AWS Blog section. Such are the challenges that AWS's Open Source group presents me with. In any case, s5cmd offers a worthy CLI tool for working with S3 in bulk.

FittedCloud has open sourced a script that leverages the new CostExplorer API. I like the direction this is going in.

Terrible Tip of the Week

...and that's what happened Last Week in AWS.

I’m Corey Quinn. I help people significantly reduce and understand their AWS bills and speak broadly on the conference circuit. I advise companies doing interesting things in the cloud space, such as ReactiveOps.

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